Example sentences of "had bring [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all those unable to attend the last A.G.M. had brought along the gold necklace and bracelet she had received on her retirement as Society Chairman . |
| 2 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 3 | The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding . |
| 4 | The tablecloth needed no stones to hold it down and all the plastic bags waited for Betty to put them in the master plastic bag she had brought for the purpose . |
| 5 | We sang Christmas carols in the parlour , recited poems , acted out skits and handed out the Christmas presents we had brought for the people . |
| 6 | One woman , describing herself as a ‘ member of an endangered species — the miner 's wife ’ , movingly portrayed the material and spiritual desolation that pit closures had brought to the South Wales valleys . |
| 7 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 8 | Despite this , the crowds kept coming to Leeds Road , drawn by the success Chapman had brought to the side . |
| 9 | Rauschning 's departure had brought to the fore worries that Danzig was not sharing in the economic recovery about which the Reich newspapers — strictly controlled by the NSDAP — trumpeted so loud . |
| 10 | One innovation she had brought to the village was that , unlike her predecessors , she made a point of visiting every house in the little community . |
| 11 | However , senior officers had it clear in their own minds that the disgrace he had brought to the rank meant he would not be allowed to keep it . |
| 12 | Shortly after , human spokespeople began appearing on Earth , on screen and in person , describing the bounty the Frasque had brought to the system , with special mention of their advanced cryonics facilities . |
| 13 | Which , presently , Meh'Lindi did , ravenously consuming fish , flesh and fowl from out of the stasis-boxes which they had brought to the suite from Jaq 's ship , the Tormentum Malorum , which went by the alias of Sapphire Eagle while they were visiting Stalinvast . |
| 14 | McLeod went on television and said that , in view of Lord Denning 's findings , the three members who had brought to the notice of the House the existence of the rumours about Profumo owed a duty to Profumo to withdraw the charge . |
| 15 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 16 | He had forgotten the incident , however , the moment they entered the jungle for the first time , riding on the little saddle ponies which Devraux 's Moi bearers had brought to the road from the hunting camp . |
| 17 | But it was not the warmth of the night which kept him awake , nor the hectic business of the day in the office , where they had had to deal with all the additional pressures which the murder had brought to the diocese . |
| 18 | Ihich died of an asthma attack , his family alleging that police refused to give him medicine which they had brought to the police station . |
| 19 | Instead of merchants dealing individually with clients , all wool was to be graded and pooled according to its quality , and profits were to be divided in accordance with the quantity that each had brought to the Staple . |
| 20 | He attacked and defeated the British forces which Riothamus had brought to the Loire in support of the emperor . |
| 21 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |
| 22 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 23 | She had told Tilly the whole story , about the man she adored , and whose child she had brought into the world . |
| 24 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
| 25 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 26 | To encourage rich men to bring out poor settlers like this , a ‘ head right ’ system was used to give land -50 acres a head in the case of Virginia — to the landowner for each immigrant he had brought across the Atlantic . |
| 27 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 28 | She drank a mouthful of unchemicated Chianti someone had brought from the Castello Crocetto . |
| 29 | Still stuck on the track within sight of Janice Rae 's flat , I got up out of my seat , took down my bag and fished out the file mum had brought from the house . |
| 30 | Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station . |